Raiser be raisin!

We’re building the infrastructure for modern philanthropy

Philanthropy runs on trust.

But the infrastructure underneath it is broken.

Small charities repeat the same information across endless applications and reports. Funders struggle to see clearly where money will make the greatest difference. Billions move every year, but the system that supports it is fragmented, manual, and inefficient.

Raiser fixes this.

We give charities a structured, living way to show who they are and the impact they create. Funders can discover, understand, and support organisations with clarity and confidence.

Small is normal

Most UK charities look nothing like big brands.

They look like food banks, youth clubs, churches, mosques, community centres, and local organisations holding things together with tiny teams.

Many operate on less than a typical household income, yet deliver a huge share of the social infrastructure we all rely on.
But they face a compounding, structural disadvantage when it comes to attracting funding.

A charity might apply to 10 or 12 different funders, and end up rewriting the same work into each funder’s language. It is the same work, described through multiple incompatible impact frameworks.

On top of that, grant processes create a structural return-on-effort penalty for smaller organisations. For any given funder, the application and reporting workload can take the same hours or days whether you turn over £100k or £500k. But the likely grant sizes are very different.

Why funders struggle too

Many grant-makers want to fund small organisations. The problem is that the process does not scale.

When you try to run lots of small grants, the admin load explodes and decision-making confidence drops.

Funders are trying to do a few hard things responsibly:

• Find organisations that align with what they care about
• Assess which ones will make the biggest difference
• Do due diligence properly
• Learn from what they funded so future decisions improve
  

But the information they rely on is fragmented, inconsistent, and rarely comparable.

The solution: shared infrastructure

Raiser is a two-sided platform with an AI-powered interface that translates between charity reality and funder requirements.

Instead of forcing charities to rewrite the same story a hundred times, Raiser gives every organisation one living Impact Story. Evidence captured in the flow of day-to-day delivery, structured once, then instantly viewable in funder-ready formats.

For funders, Raiser turns narratives into comparable, decision-grade evidence so decision-making gets clearer, not noisier.

Why we’re raising now

Raiser is not an idea. It is a live product.

Over the last 18 months we have been doing an incredible amount, on a shoestring (sounds a bit like how small charities run 🤔). Thanks to the amazingly hard-working and selfless Raiser team:

• We built and shipped the first version in September 2025.
• We have spent the last six months working with small charities to test and refine the product features so that users get the best results from using Raiser. (We are still fundraisers and impact specialists at heart).
• We have also been working with overwhelmed grant-makers who know the system needs to change and want to be part of making a new infrastructure for their giving.

We are now moving into our next phase of development. To support that, we are raising a small funding round, and the early response from people who share our vision for the sector has been very encouraging.

As the Founders of Raiser, we are as excited about the potential of what we are building as we are about doing it in collaboration with the sector. This is not another tool for the sector, Raiser is infrastructure for the sector, by the sector.

We believe it is important for the sector to have a stake in its own infrastructure. If you want to truly fix a system, the people it’s meant to serve need to be involved.

If you want to know more, please get in touch.

Thanks

Luke Wilkinson & Beckie Denny

Founders